President Pranab Mukherjee, who is on a visit of West Bengal, received the first copy of book 'Metaphysics, Morals and Politics' from Prof Amal Kumar Mukhopadhyay on May 18 in Kolkata, stated a press release.

The
President described the author Prof Amal Mukhopadhyay a brilliant
scholar and said that posterity would remember his 'mighty mind'
who had a state scholar of the Government of West and later on joined
as a research scholar at the London School of Economics and began his
PhD research on TH Green, the 19th century English idealist political
philosopher.

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Prof
Mukhopadhyay was awarded PhD degree by London University. His thesis
was published in a book titled 'The Ethics of Obedience' who
later decided to bring out his original thesis contradicting and
elaborating some of his earlier arguments. Now, the book has come
with a new title 'Metaphysics, Morals and Politics', said the
release.

According
to Mukherjee, politics without morality is no politics and the issue
had become all the more important because of the tremendous changes
that took place in the 2nd half of the last century because of
internet, mobile phones and technological revolution in the field of
communication.

Mukherjee
said that Prof Green established a bridge between morals and politics
while applauding Prof Mukhopadhyay for establishing the extreme
relevance of Green's ideas in the modern world.